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Peter, we are all unique guests if we stop to think of it. No one has our unique finger prints. God broke the mold after he created each one of us. I wonder though if a human clone would be unique in all ways though. It scares me to think about human cloning. I think that we each have a unique personality too.

Just read a story about Cynthia's double-yolker that she put in a 'bator. It was twice the size of the other eggs. On day 19 she pipped the egg herself, as she figured the air pocket wouldn't be big enough for the two chicks inside. Both the chicks were alive at this point. Day 20 and 21 passed, and although the egg still wriggled about, nothing happened.

She got the egg out and peeled off a bit of shell, then put it back in the bator. Nothing. Started peeling off the membrane and even more shell, and she got right down to the first chick before she hit blood and thought she'd better stop. Waited till the next day; no progress.

So she got the egg out again, and peeled off all the shell. At this point she candled the egg to check they were still alive, and sees movement on the bottom but none on top. Puts back in bator for another few hours, still nothing! So she peels off more membrane & the chick on top pops out, dead. She checks the second chick underneath and it has suffocated because the other chick took so long

The first chick though was apprantly ginormous, the size of an adult's hand!! It's sad though, it'd been so cool to have twin chicks born.

Do you think she killed the bigger one by trying to rush it out? (Do they use the air sac to breathe then?) Or would she have saved the 2nd one if she'd gone for it and just peeled it at the outset? (Are twin chicks a possibility?)

I was hoping for a better ending too! Cynthia researched twin chicks on the net, and discovered 9 times out of 10 both chicks die, and it's very unlikely that even one chick survives never mind two! I don't know if the second and smaller chick might have survived if she had peeled off all the shell, but the bigger one would have died. It must have been a very fine balance, and very stressful trying to decide what to do! Would've been a miracle if they had survived.